Best of the new: People & Ideas

Glitzy new theaters are nice, but what about the old, crumbling spaces? Give arts advocate Dan Hunter (pictured, with his family) props for pushing legislators to hand out $16.7 million as part of Massachusettss first Cultural Facilities Fund. The money helps pay for fix-it projects throughout the Commonwealth, from a theater at Jacobs Pillow in Becket to the Days Lumber Yard building at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.